Improvement in bee-hives



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team. raient N02 111,466, dma :may s1, 1811.

IMPRovEivisnT IN ass-Hives.

The 1Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent Aund making'p'art of the same.

Figure 1 of the'drawingis a front viewof my 'in-I vention, with hinged door removed.-

- 4Figure'2'is a perspective view, showing rear and.

bottom of. same. l

Figure 3 is a perspective view ot one of the combguides.

Figure 1L-is a vertical section from `front to rear.

Figure is a vertical transverse section.

My invention relates to .bec-hives, and consists in certain improvements in the construction and arrangement of-'theparts thereof designed to aiiord a suiicient protection to the bees in severe climates, besides secring' proper ventilation' and providing more storage for the surplus honey.

'lh'e letter A of the drawing designates the outer case of my hive, provided with the hingedfront B, entrance (l, openings a. a; and ventilators b b and c.

D represents the surplus-honey boxes arranged at the sides of the hive instead of at the top.

E, the combguides, having their upper bars dovetailed, and arranged to slide in dovetail grooves formed in the' top of the easex. ,Each comb-guide, .being entirely detached from its fellows,may be pulled out separately, .should there be occasion.

F, the front glass, arranged to slide horizontally,

vthus enabling the homestead to be opened to a greater or lesser extent at will..

'When the glasses-are fully opened they occupy spaces in front oi' the'side boxes D on each side of the homestead. f

G, the lower chamber in the under part of the hive.

'The ventiiatug aperturesl b are made in the front wail of this chamber and are covered with wire-gauze. The ventiiating aperture o in the upper part of the lear wall is also covered with gauze.

Suitable pivoted plates 6 o are provided to close all of these apertures.

By placing the surplus-honey boxes at the side o the hive-thc number of boxes is increased; at the same time the distance to be traversed bythe loaded bees is. decreased.

As the Ventilating apertures la l, for the entrance of the air, are placed underneath the front of the comb-guides, and in the front wall of the lower chamber G, the bees are preventedfrprn` having access to them. 'When they can gain such access their habit is .to smear .the ventilators with wax, destroying the ventilation.

' The front 'e'dge of the floor of the homestead is recessed at z to permit the passage o f the air from the chamber G. This recess is covered by a piece of' wire-cloth, x, slanting upward and outward, the same being nailed to the tongues t t, whose edges are in-v clined in like manner. In front of the forward edge of the floor is placed a'notched strip, s, which. is grooved longitudinally vto keep the glass .slides in place. This notched strip forms the front wall of the air-opening, and the wiregauze is designedto extend from the upper part of this front wall downward in a diagonal direction to the lower edge of the rear wall of the opening. Thus arranged, the bees cannot get at the wire-cloth to close it up. i

'M y hive can be made without a removable top, as the comb-guides are constructed'to -be drawn out at the front. Any one of them may be removed at will, and the arrangement of the glass front' is such as to prevent the necessity of opening the-whole front for this purpose. The entrances within the hiveto the surplus-honey boxes are lettered e e'. They are arranged at each end of each box. and at the bcttom'thereof.

What I claim, as my invention, and desire to secure by LettersfPatent,- is o 1. The hive herein described, having the side boxes D D andthe horizontally-sliding glass plates F F, whenV constructed and operating snbstantiallyas shown an n described.

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JOHN ARMSTRONG McANULTY. A Witnesses:

WILLIAM J. DnUM, JAMns C. Gnnnsn. 

